An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 127

Isl. _bua_, parare, and _mage_ socius, q. to make preparation for one's companions; or _bo_ villa, incola, and _mage_, the fellows.h.i.+p of a village or of its inhabitants.

b.u.mMIL, b.u.mMLE, BOMBELL, _s._ Expl. a drone, an idle fellow.

V. ~Batie-b.u.mmil~.

_Burns._

Teut. _bommele_, fucus.

_To_ b.u.mMIL, _v. a._ To bungle; also, as _v. n._ to blunder, S.

_Ramsay._

~b.u.mmeler~, ~b.u.mler~, _s._ A blundering fellow, S.

b.u.mP, _s._ A stroke. "He came _b.u.mp_ upon me," he came upon me with a stroke, S.

Isl. _bomps_, a stroke against any object, _bomp-a_, cita ruina ferri.

BUN, BUNN. _s._ A sweet cake or loaf, generally one of that kind which is used at the new year, baked with fruit and spiceries; sometimes for this reason called a _sweetie-scone_, S.

_Statist. Acc._

Ir. _bunna_, a cake.

BUN, _s._

1. The same as E. _b.u.m_.

_Lyndsay._

2. This word signifies the tail or brush of a hare, Border; being used in the same sense with _fud_.

_Watson's Coll._

Ir. _bon_, _bun_, the bottom of any thing; Dan. _bund_, id.; Gael.

_bun_, bottom, foundation.

BUN, _s._ A large cask placed in a cart, for the purpose of bringing water from a distance; Ang.

This may be radically the same with S. _boyn_, a was.h.i.+ngtub.

BUNE, BOON, _s._ The inner part of the stalk of flax, the core, that which is of no use, afterwards called _shaws_, Ang. _Been_, id. Morays.

BUNEWAND, _s._ The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is called _Bunwand_, S. B.

_Montgomerie._

This appears to be of the same meaning with _Bunwede_, q. v.

BUNG, _adj._ Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S.

_Ramsay._

Q. Smelling of the _bung_.

BUNKER, BUNKART, _s._

1. A bench, or sort of low chest serving for a seat.

_Ramsay._

2. A seat in a window, which also serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid, S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

3. It seems to be the same word which is used to denote an earthen seat in the fields, Aberd.

_Law Case._

A. S. _benc_, Su. G. _baenck_, a bench; Isl. _buncke_, acervus, strues; a heap.

BUNKLE, _s._ A stranger. "The dog barks, because he kens you to be a _bunkle_." This word is used in some parts of Angus.

Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl. _bon_, mendicatio, and _karl_, vulgarly _kall_, h.o.m.o.

BUNNERTS, _s. pl._ Cow-parsnip, S. B. Heracleum sphondylium, Linn.

Perhaps Q. _biorn-oert_, which in Sw. would be, the bear's wort.

BUNTLING, _s._ Bantling, E., a bird, S.

BUNWEDE, _s._ Ragwort, an herb; Senecio jacobaea, Linn. S. _binweed_; synon. _weebow_.

_Houlate._